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March 1, 2015 - August 24, 2016
What’s the worst that could happen?
This book is for anyone who is sick of the deferred-life plan and wants to live life large instead of postpone it.
Gold is getting old. The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).
I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time. The vast majority of people will never find a job that can be an unending source of fulfillment, so that is not the goal here; to free time and automate income is.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the “freedom multiplier.”
Sports evolve when sacred cows are killed, when basic assumptions are tested. The same is true in life and in lifestyles.
1. Retirement Is Worst-Case-Scenario Insurance.
2. Interest and Energy Are Cyclical.
By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable.
3. Less Is Not Laziness.
our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
The Timing Is Never Right.
For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks.
If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
5. Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission.
6. Emphasize Strengths, Don’t Fix Weaknesses.
Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.
7. Things in Excess Become Their Opposite.
but the positive use of free time, defined simply as doing what you want as opposed to what you feel obligated to do.
8. Money Alone Is Not the Solution.
9. Relative Income Is More Important Than Absolute Income.
10. Distress Is Bad, Eustress Is Good.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
Am I being productive or just active?
